Mark Jordan Legan, with the online magazine Slate.com, explores what critics are saying about "The Kite Runner" and "I Am Legend."
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Atonement, the drama about love and war, garners seven nominations for a Golden Globe award, the most of any film. Also up for best drama are the films American Gangster and No Country for Old Men. The awards will be presented in January on NBC.
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Andy Serkis is reteaming with director Peter Jackson in DreamWorks' "Tintin," the movie trilogy collaboration from Jackson and Steven Spielberg. It is believed he will play the role of Capt. Haddock.
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Emmy Rossum has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox's live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese comic "Dragonball." Also coming aboard the film: "Heroes" actress Eriko Tamura and Korean pop star Joon Park.
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LONDON -- Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is nominated in a trio of major categories for this year's London Film Critics' Circle awards.
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The head of the Federal Trade Commission said Friday she won't remove herself from an antitrust review of Google Inc.'s purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, rebuffing requests from privacy groups opposed to the transaction.
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BRUSSELS -- More than two-thirds of European households will have broadband by 2013, according to a report published Friday that discloses there is still huge potential for growth in broadband adoption.
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Anyone who is becoming disillusioned with their online job search and has found themselves looking enviously onto the effortless lives of celebrities can take comfort in the fact that they haven’t always had it this easy. Even the most glamorous celebs have crumpled discarded CVs that they’d rather we never see. Fortunately, the internet has made it rather easy to research celebrities’ embarrassing occupations before they were famous
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The actor's 'I Am Legend' breaks the December-opening box office record with $76.5 million.
Will Smith is arguably the world's biggest movie star. And his argument got a lot stronger this weekend.
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A 1950s novella gets its fourth big-screen adaptation this winter. Neda Ulaby talks to the story's fans and the film's creators to find out why the apocalypse just keeps on coming.
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"Beowulf" and "Ratatouille" have been given berths -- rare for animated films -- on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' preliminary contender list for the visual effects Oscar.
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Warner Bros.' Will Smith starrer "I Am Legend" opened famously indeed this weekend, ringing up an estimated $76.5 million in estimated domestic boxoffice to notch Smith's -- and even December's -- best-ever bow.
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The writers for CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" may be the first to return to work through a deal Letterman's independent production company Worldwide Pants is negotiating with the WGA. Such a pact would allow the late-night show to come back on the air with its entire staff, including scribes, intact.
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HONG KONG -- "The Warlords," Hong Kong director Peter Chan's $40 million period war epic, opened across China on Thursday earning a quick 12 million yuan ($1.6 million), producers Applause Pictures and Media Asia said.
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When push comes to shove, residuals are going to matter more than reality writers in the union.
P REDICTIONS often come back to haunt the predictor, but this column will go out on a limb anyway: Chances are slim to none that the Writers Guild of America will make good on its vow to organize large numbers of reality-show workers as a result of its current strike.
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Leave it to the superdiva to put on a farewell to end all farewells. But the real woman surfaced, touchingly, in this performance too.
CELINE DION said it over and over as the moments unfurled onstage Saturday night at Caesars Palace: "Today is a beginning. It is not an end." But the singer grabbed hold of her final performance of "A New Day," the show that's made her a Vegas staple for the past half-decade, as if it were a last communiqué before her exile.
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*Warner Bros hoped that its Will Smith blockbuster "I Am Legend" would take in at least $40 million or so at the box office this weekend. It ended up banking $76.5 million - giving the studio the biggest December opening of any film in history.
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*A public viewing for late rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner will be held on Thursday in Los Angeles with funeral services to follow the next day in Gardena, his management has confirmed.
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*Denzel Washington and the young stars of his new film "The Great Debaters" attended a special screening in Marshall, Texas Thursday to salute the town that produced the 1930s debate team portrayed in the Golden Globe-nominated movie.
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*A real estate developer who had purchased Michael Vick's former dog fighting headquarters in Virginia with plans to flip it for a quick profit experienced a rude awakening Saturday when the property failed to sell at auction.
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*Less than 48 hours after 19-year-old Los Angeles resident Saleisha Stowers took the Cycle 9 crown on "America's Next Top Model," rumors began circulating that her victory may not have been all that fair.
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PARIS -- Estonian writer-director Veiko Ounpuu was crowned with the Marrakech International Film Festival's top prize for his first feature "Autumn Ball" as the glamorous fest wrapped in the Moroccan city Saturday night.
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Sister networks Noggin and the N, which share the same channel space, have completed programming plans to follow their split into separate, 24-hour networks at the end of the month.
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"No Country for Old Men" and "Juno" took the best drama and best comedy/musical prizes, respectively, at the 12th annual Satellite Awards, which were handed out Sunday evening at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.
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The Ski Channel has teamed with ski photographer and self-described weather guru Tony "Harro" Harrington for a multidimensional partnership that calls for the production of a new series, "Storm Hunter," and a documentary film.
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"No Country for Old Men" and "Juno" took the best drama and best comedy/musical prizes, respectively, at the 12th annual Satellite Awards, which were handed out Sunday evening at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.
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'Seven Ages of Rock' offers intelligent takes on some facets of the genre, plus lots of music.
As a countdown toward Christmas, VH1 Classic tonight begins its broadcast of a BBC-sprung series called "Seven Ages of Rock." There is fun to be had for the whole family -- nostalgia for the old folks, inspiration for the young -- assuming your family likes to sit around watching old clips of bands and hearing musicians talk and seeing what they look like now. If not, such a family is my holiday wish for you.
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Wall Street doesn't always pay close attention to TV ratings trends, but in the case of Viacom's cable networks, viewership is a key factor of financial performance, and resurgent U.S. ratings trends have been in particular focus this year.
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Wall Street doesn't always pay close attention to TV ratings trends, but in the case of Viacom's cable networks, viewership is a key factor of financial performance.
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Two of late-night's biggest stars are returning to work, two months after the writers strike took them off the air. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" will return to the air Jan. 2.
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TORONTO -- Quebec media giant Quebecor on Monday replaced the head of its commercial printing division as doubts about its financial liquidity grew.
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Flemish cinema enjoyed a record year in 2007 thanks to such local movies as Dominique Deruddere's "Firmin" and Nic Balthazar's "Ben X."
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"Sweeney Todd's" moral ambiguity and complex music led to the creation of what filmmakers say is a new genre.
SIX years ago, Johnny Depp received a curious gift. Tim Burton -- the director who immortalized the actor as Edward Scissorhands -- was visiting Depp in France and left a CD. "He didn't really elaborate other than to say: 'Listen to it,' " Depp said in New York before the premiere of "Sweeney Todd," the duo's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning show about a vengeful and murderous barber returned from jail, where he'd been sent on a trumped-up charge.
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